Justice

Sometime next week Greece's Supreme Court will hand down a decision in the case of the Turkish military officers seeking asylum after landing their aircraft in Greece following the failed military coup attempt in Turkey in July 2016. The eight officers...

A three-member misdemeanors court found the former head of Greece’s statistics agency ELSTAT innocent of the charge of criminal breach of duty following a marathon hearing session on Tuesday that lasted five hours. Andreas Georgiou was accused of keeping his...

On On Tuesday, November 22, officials announced that the trials of dozens of individuals suspected in the Siemens cash-for-contracts trial is set to begin on February 24, 2017. The case initiated this summer but soon after was postponed due to...

Last summer in Athens the murder of a 4-year-old girl who was initially reported missing by her parents only to be found murdered and cut into pieces, captivated the nation. The trial for the accused murderer - her own father -...

  The trial for the torching of Marfin Bank and the deaths of three people trapped inside began before an Athens Criminal Court on Monday. The tragic incident occurred during a massive anti-austerity protest rally held against the first Greek bailout...

Greece's Supreme Court on Monday partially revoked a decision to drop charges against Andreas Georgiou, the former head of Greece's independent Statistics Agency ELSTAT, for presenting artificially inflated figures for Greece's deficit in 2009. The court accepted a motion filed...

A Greek supreme special court dealing exclusively with salary and pension issues pertaining to the judiciary on Friday rejected laws cutting the salary rebates that the same body had awarded to judges in 2013, finding them unconstitutional and contrary...

Greece's Council of State, it's top administrative court, decided that the Greek lawyers strike that started on January 12 is illegal and in violation of the Greek constitution and international law. The lawyers' strike brought Greek courts to a...

A preliminary investigation into comments made by Deputy Health Minister Pavlos Polakis has been ordered by Supreme Court Prosecutor Efterpi Koutzamani on Friday. She called for the claims made by the minister to be investigated so that prosecutorial action...

It is obvious why Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras called this extraordinary parliamentary session on corruption at a time when everything else in Greece is in shambles. The much-advertised meeting in parliament was nothing more than a smokescreen to divert...